UPDATE: This is Mary Katherine Goddard. Cara gets the gold star for correctly identifying the nation’s first postmistress and a printer of the Declaration of Independence. I won’t be posting about her, but you can find out more about her here and here. This link concerns her appeal to get her job back and this one shows in her own handwriting her appeal found in the papers of George Washington.

I was actually surprised to find a picture even if it is a drawing. I've never had one for classroom use.

While a man is credited with the first printing of the Declaration of Independence we remember her for printing the copies with all of the signatures. Later she served as a postmaster and was eventually removed because she was a woman.

If I recall something that was told to me years ago by a NPS Ranger at the Franklin Court printing office in Philadelphia, she had served for more than a decade as 'Postmistress' but they decided she was too old to ride the circuit. So it wasn't just gender bias, but age bias!